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vacancy

English

Etymology

From vac(ant) +? -ancy.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?ve?k?nsi/

Noun

vacancy (countable and uncountable, plural vacancies)

  1. An unoccupied position or job.
  2. An available room in a hotel; guest house, etc.
  3. Empty space.
    • 1993, James Michie, trans. Ovid, The Art of Love, Book II:
      Sky was set above earth, land ringed with sea, / Chaos retired to its own vacancy [...].
  4. Lack of intelligence or understanding.
  5. (physics) A defect in a crystal caused by the absence of an atom in a lattice

Related terms

  • vacant (adjective)
  • vacate (verb)

Translations

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opportunity

English

Etymology

opportune +? -ity, from Middle French opportunité, from Latin opportunitas

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??p.??tju?.n?.t?/, /??p.??t??u?.n?.ti/
  • (General American) enPR: ä'p?r-to?o?n?-t?, IPA(key): /??p??tun?ti/
  • Hyphenation: op?por?tu?ni?ty

Noun

opportunity (countable and uncountable, plural opportunities)

  1. A chance for advancement, progress or profit.
  2. A favorable circumstance or occasion.
  3. (nonstandard, Euro-English) opportuneness

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

  • opportunity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • opportunity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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  • what opportunity are you most interested in
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  • what opportunity presents itself to pahom
  • what is opportunity cost examples
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